50 years ago Nov 1963 I was a GRAD student ( BA Geog) at The newly recognised University of East Africa UGANDA - This Teacher for East Africa (T E A ) with a second site in Afghanistan TA was an experiment in the 1960'd where PEACE through EDUCATION was thought possible.
I was naive and with Parents and Grandparents born Portuguese Goans …
50 years ago Nov 1963 I was a GRAD student ( BA Geog) at The newly recognised University of East Africa UGANDA - This Teacher for East Africa (T E A ) with a second site in Afghanistan TA was an experiment in the 1960'd where PEACE through EDUCATION was thought possible.
I was naive and with Parents and Grandparents born Portuguese Goans in BRITISH India... but I under stood there was NO PLACE on EARTH for my family community.. we numbered less than half a million total in a newly developing Diaspora nad would soon intermarry and lose our "cultural distinctiveness" which was to be Mestizo Mutt, Mixed up R ace Face Blended.. folks.. ! ( Jewish Brahmin Chriatian Hindu Islamic ! you name it..
Lo and Behold !
I am like everyone in New Hampshire New England bordering Quebc / Vermon who landed l NOV 1974 .. nearl;y 50 years ago.. whose children graduated from the Elite Ivy Leagues BIG and "little" and havelived through Red Blooded Red States turn Deep BLUE
Code Blue Medically I am told means... ?? **
omehow zipped past PURPLE like the proverbial "flash" in the pan and straight into the fire..
FREE PRESS reports life as is Now I am as is . and can only be assured that Our Grandparents happy in their resting places in ASIA .never dreamed that ASIAN African America "Automatic Citizens by Birth" Grandchildren will follow our flightpaths ( not pioneer pilgrim "footsteps) and move on "forward" West ward Ho Ho Ho - as once 20th Century foklks "rounded " the Cape of GOOD Hope -Capetown going the Other way- across through Brazil Argentina Colombia up past California into Alaska where it is but a Hop Skip and Jump back into Eastern Asia..
Far sighted McCain Hanoi Hilton /Arizona and Running Mate ( who could see Russia from her Back Porch) knew with 100% clarity the Ocean Pacific Islands Midway - Marshall almost invisible from the many satellites and Space Stations have Money Powered Influence ers to get Time Zones to begin along what is now the International Date Line IDL Imagined on Paper or delightful crafted GLOBES Greenwich Mean Time GMT BBC will no longer be the staring point for Sunrise .. That will always bee in the East of Far East A tiny radio transmitter in the Ocean Pacific.. could hail thr dawn of the Dawn of the New amazing Era Age ..Season or whatever Y2K Fireworks proclaimed 1999/ 2000 January 1 23 years ago
I owe my hind sight insight far sight and near sight to my one year Diploma in Education created by 1960-63 Peace Corps Sargeant Shriver, 60-63 JFK admin
1900 1960 British Dev Office and the Goverment /NGO's of that REGION whose Port Cities Zanibar Mombasa Port Elizabeth Durban.. Luorenco Marques traded with India,Arabia Persia Indo China and Indonesia for 1000 year at least ..
Nothing new Under the Sun we all orbit around.. It has existed for billions of years ..
50 years ago Nov 1963 I was a GRAD student ( BA Geog) at The newly recognised University of East Africa UGANDA - This Teacher for East Africa (T E A ) with a second site in Afghanistan TA was an experiment in the 1960'd where PEACE through EDUCATION was thought possible.
I was naive and with Parents and Grandparents born Portuguese Goans in BRITISH India... but I under stood there was NO PLACE on EARTH for my family community.. we numbered less than half a million total in a newly developing Diaspora nad would soon intermarry and lose our "cultural distinctiveness" which was to be Mestizo Mutt, Mixed up R ace Face Blended.. folks.. ! ( Jewish Brahmin Chriatian Hindu Islamic ! you name it..
Lo and Behold !
I am like everyone in New Hampshire New England bordering Quebc / Vermon who landed l NOV 1974 .. nearl;y 50 years ago.. whose children graduated from the Elite Ivy Leagues BIG and "little" and havelived through Red Blooded Red States turn Deep BLUE
Code Blue Medically I am told means... ?? **
omehow zipped past PURPLE like the proverbial "flash" in the pan and straight into the fire..
FREE PRESS reports life as is Now I am as is . and can only be assured that Our Grandparents happy in their resting places in ASIA .never dreamed that ASIAN African America "Automatic Citizens by Birth" Grandchildren will follow our flightpaths ( not pioneer pilgrim "footsteps) and move on "forward" West ward Ho Ho Ho - as once 20th Century foklks "rounded " the Cape of GOOD Hope -Capetown going the Other way- across through Brazil Argentina Colombia up past California into Alaska where it is but a Hop Skip and Jump back into Eastern Asia..
Far sighted McCain Hanoi Hilton /Arizona and Running Mate ( who could see Russia from her Back Porch) knew with 100% clarity the Ocean Pacific Islands Midway - Marshall almost invisible from the many satellites and Space Stations have Money Powered Influence ers to get Time Zones to begin along what is now the International Date Line IDL Imagined on Paper or delightful crafted GLOBES Greenwich Mean Time GMT BBC will no longer be the staring point for Sunrise .. That will always bee in the East of Far East A tiny radio transmitter in the Ocean Pacific.. could hail thr dawn of the Dawn of the New amazing Era Age ..Season or whatever Y2K Fireworks proclaimed 1999/ 2000 January 1 23 years ago
I owe my hind sight insight far sight and near sight to my one year Diploma in Education created by 1960-63 Peace Corps Sargeant Shriver, 60-63 JFK admin
1900 1960 British Dev Office and the Goverment /NGO's of that REGION whose Port Cities Zanibar Mombasa Port Elizabeth Durban.. Luorenco Marques traded with India,Arabia Persia Indo China and Indonesia for 1000 year at least ..
Nothing new Under the Sun we all orbit around.. It has existed for billions of years ..